I’ve been thinking for a while now, which one on the micro board to purchase, and play with. Basically microboard are small electronic boards, which you can develop on and build all sort of cool stuff.
There are these main ones on the market these days, which I know of:
- Raspberry Pi – Raspberry Pi Wiki Pages
- Arduino – Arduino Wiki pages
- BBC Micro bit – BBC Micro bit Wiki pages
- And many more over the globe
The boards got basic connectivity ports (such as usb, power supply port). And you attach to it all sort of electronics (such as led lights, sd card for storage, etc).
You can build all sort of things from these micro boards, such as:
- Digital slides show frame
- 3d printers – (for example using an arduino board)
- Logo turtle bots
- Electronic led changing display – (according to audio sound frequencies)
- Led text banners
After you understand the basic electronics, you can download (or better else write by yourself) an application for the board, using the electronics you’ve attached to it.
Every board, got its own software toolkit. Where you can download the SDK to your home computer, most of them got all the available platforms (linux, windows or OSX). The SDK enable you to decide what you would like to run using this gadget you’ve just build.
As for me, I didn’t decide yet, which gadget I would like to build. And which one of all these board possibilities I would like to build it with.